Description
Thornton, a village and a parish in Buckinghamshire, 4 1/2 miles ENE of Buckingham, which is the nearest railway station. Post town and telegraph office, Stony Stratford; money order office, Deanshanger. Acreage, 1347; population of the civil parish, 80; of the ecclesiastical, with Nash, 386. The manor, with Thornton Hall, a large mansion in the Tudor style standing in a park of 181 acres, belongs to the Cavendish family. The living is a rectory, united with Nash, in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £235 with residence. The church, which stands in the grounds of Thornton Hall, is an ivy-clad building of stone, consisting of nave, aisles, and an embattled western tower. It has some ancient and interesting tombs and brasses.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
